Brianda Alcazar was born in Michoacán, Mexico, in 1993. Her family came to the United States in 1999, and they settled in the Portland, Oregon, area. She earned an associate degree from Portland Community College in 2014 and a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Pacific University in 2017. She became a recipient of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provided protections for some undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children. She married Salo Acosta and they had two children.

Abdulelah "Abood" Aldabea was born in Damascus, Syria, in 2002. His family fled the civil war in Syria in 2012. They sought refuge with family in Jordan, and were approved for resettlement in the United States in 2014. The family settled in Portland, Oregon, where Aldabea attended Reynolds High School.

Kathy Delumpa Allegri was born at Fort McKinley in the Philippines in 1948. She came to the United States with her family in 1949, when she was a year old. She grew up on a military base in Georgia. After her father retired from the U.S. Army in the early 1950s, the family moved to Palo Alto, California. She studied art and sociology at the University of California Davis, but put her studies on hold in 1969 to help her sister, whose husband was killed in the Vietnam War, to care for her young children. While continuing her education at Stanford University, she met Bill Allegri. They married and later had six children. She later completed her bachelor of science in art at Colorado State University in 1989. In 1991, she moved to Gresham, Oregon, and she began en plein air painting in 1992. She and Bill Allegri owned a wine shop from 2000 to 2014. She taught art classes at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Oregon, and opened a gallery in Troutdale, Oregon.

Stanton Willetts Allison was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1896. In 1905, his family moved to Portland, Oregon. He served in the U.S. military during World War I. In 1926, he and Winifred Crowther were married; they later had one child. He was a lawyer in Portland, and later served as secretary of the board of the Episcopal Diocese of Oregon. He died in 1978.

Helen Florence Althaus was born in Ohio in 1910. The next year, her family came to Oregon, and she grew up on a farm in Troutdale. She studied chemistry at the University of Oregon, graduating in 1932, and worked as a chemist for an aluminum company near Troutdale. She earned her law degree from Northwestern College of Law in 1945, and was admitted to the Oregon State Bar later that same year. She was the first woman to clerk for a federal judge in Oregon, clerking for U.S. District Court Judge James Alger Fee from 1947 to 1949. From 1949 to 1953, she served as the deputy city attorney for Portland, Oregon. She practiced law at the firm King Miller, now known as Miller Nash, from 1953 until 1970, when she left to form an all-woman law firm. Then, in 1973, she handled special assignments regarding the National Environmental Policy Act for the Bonneville Power Administration. Meanwhile, she also served as the only woman member of the Troutdale City Council from 1973 to 1982. In 1980, she served as staff attorney in the office of the Regional Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior, where she headed a research project of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. She was a founding member of both the Queen's Bench and Rogue Women Lawyers. After her retirement, she pursued an acting career, joining the New Playwright's Theatre company in Ashland, Oregon. She also served on its board. Althaus received the Justice Betty Roberts Award in 1994, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Oregon award for significant contributions to the cause of individual freedom in 1997. She died in 2006.

Johana Amani was born near Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, in 2000. Her parents divorced soon after. After years of abuse from her father and other male relatives, Amani and her sister were taken by their mother to Rwanda in 2010. They soon relocated to Kenya, where they lived for six years until their application for asylum in the United States was accepted. In 2016, they were resettled in Portland, Oregon. Johana Amani attended the University of Oregon, where she majored in international development.

George H. Ambrose served as an Indian Agent for the Rogue River Indian Agency starting in 1854